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Place of Birth: Neuilly-sur-Seine, ÃŽle-de-France, France
About Yann Toma
- Yann Toma (born 1969 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is both an artist and a researcher, the lifelong president of the company Ouest-Lumière and an artist-observer within the UN, where he sits as an entrepreneurial artist. With projects always anchored in a societal context, Yann Toma's fundamental idea is to rebuild the link.
- Connecting with ourselves, our collective memory, and the transforming power generated by the mass, art is used here as a means of materializing energy flows but also as an energy in its own right. Yann Toma is a French contemporary artist and a researcher.
- He positions his work and his reflection on the border of the artistic expression, always involved in political and social events.
- Toma places the artist as responsible for social debate.
- As a mediator he can invite people to get involved, to take part of a collaborative energy.
- Toma collaborates with entreprises, political scientists as well as philosophers.
- By salvaging material from former electric power company Ouest-Lumière in the early 1990s, he has appropriated a symbolic network, an industrial infrastructure which he turned into his research territory and the very matter of his activity.
- Toma, president for life of Ouest Lumière, is also an artist-observer within the U.N where he sits as an entrepreneurial artist.
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